APC Senators Will Stop Moves To Override Buhari On Electoral Act – Gumel

Senator Abdullahi Gumel (APC-Jigawa) has said that the Senate Caucus of the APC will stop every move to override President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of Electoral Act(Amendment) Bill.

Gumel told NAN that the caucus would do everything possible to stop the move.

The lawmaker also maintained that the ruling party is still in the majority.

Gumel said: “We, the APC caucus, are with the President. Even if they want to override him, the APC caucus is in majority. So, they do not have the number.

“One of the concerns of the President about the bill is the provision for transmission of results electronically.

“It is not just picking a telephone and transmitting results. It is through equipment.

“And it means 150,000 polling booths in the country, transmitting results from the booths to five places, state assembly, collation centre of House of Representatives, collation centre of the senate to collation centre of the states to the national data bank.

“So, the results from these five places multiply by 150, 000 is enormous.

“INEC is yet to buy the equipment and people are not trained on this transmission and election is two months away.

“So, there is no way INEC will be able to transmit the election electronically, even if the bill is signed into by the President.

“Also, the ECOWAS protocol on elections should not be wished away.”